Word: slasher
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...valuable part in dramatically reducing American hunger and malnutrition in recent years. But the inflation of the late 1970s reached an intolerable point, dictating an effort to chop the huge budget deficits that have been feeding it. In the view of David Stockman, Reagan's chief budget slasher, school lunch subsidies are "a perfect example of an entitlement program that should be reviewed. It entitles a lot of middle-class people to a trivial subsidy, which is nonsensical, because they pay their school lunch bill on April 15. Now that we've cut their tax due on April...
...find out if he would be nominated to head the Environmental Protection Agency. He wasn't, although he had been a leading contender for hte post. But his critical outlook toward regulations ultimately earned him a position in the Office of Management and Budget, the mileu of chief budget-slasher--and an old DeMuth associate--David Stockman...
...finance director in Reagan's California cabinet, and has remained close to the President. As Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Richard Nixon and as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under both Nixon and Gerald Ford, Weinberger became known as "Cap the Knife," the vigorous slasher of budgets and waste...
...distinctly Nixon-Ford tinge, as members of previous Republican administrations-reshuffle and reassemble. To the disappointment of fire-and-brimstone loyalists who dreamed of a Moral Majority-staffed White House, the only truly new face on the scene pushing for extreme government disembowelment is whiz-kid budget-slasher David A. Stockman; all other cabinet-level positions went to establishment administrators, bankers and the occasional crony. It's happened before, an aide says, and it'll happen again. "Jimmy Carter spent 1976 campaigning against Washington, and look what he ended up with: Cy Vance, Lloyd Cutler, Harold Brown. When it comes...
That pretty much left Weinberger, although some complained that a budget slasher was a strange choice for a President who intends to mount a major military buildup. In Reagan's view, however, Weinberger may be just the man to make sure that generals and admirals spend their unexpected dollars wisely...